Downgraded phenomenology: how conscious overflow lost its richness.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences September 19, 2018 Emily J Ward 20 citations
Our in-the-moment experience of the world can feel vivid and rich, even when we cannot describe our experience due to limitations of attention, memory or other cognitive processes. But the nature of visual awareness is quite sparse, as suggested by the phenomena of failures of awareness, such as change blindness and inattentional blindness. I will argue that once failures of memory or failures...